Solaar

release 1.0.5

• Update documentation on devices forgetting settings.
• Improve help messages
• Fix bug in finding receiver to pair
• Solaar config command can set keyed settings.

release 1.0.5rc2

• Solaar config command can set keyed settings.
• Add setting for polling rate
• Use long HID++ messages for all 2.0 requests
• Update German, Italian, and Polish translations
• Solaar config command no longer selects paired but unconnected devices
• Show HID++ 1.0 remaining pairings value in solaar show for devices that support it
• Add option to not use battery icons in system tray.
• Update Polish and Dutch translation.
• Add Czech translation.
• Remove information on SUSE package as it is very old.
• Turn GKEY notifications into Gn key keypresses that can trigger rules.
• Push device settings to devices after suspend when device is immediately active.
• Reduce unneccessary saving of configuration file.
• Better handling of disconnected devices.
• Implement GUI to edit rules.
• Implement rule-base processing of HID++ feature notifications (depends on X11).
• Add settings for diversion of crown and remappable keys.
• Access widgets by name instead of by index.
• Implement UNIFIED_BATTERY feature and use in battery reports.
• Add a clickable lock icon that determines where each setting can be changed.

release 1.0.4

• Update pt_BR translation

release 1.0.4rc1

• Support USB and BT connected devices that are not in descriptors.py
• Use FRIENDLY NAME for codename if needed and available.
• Extract manufacturer and product ID from Udev HID information.
• Add Bluetooth and USB product IDs to device descriptors records.
• Support Bluetooth-connected devices.
• Add model ID and unit ID to device identification.
• Support changing DPI by pressing DPI Switch button and sliding horizontally
• Add device-specific notification handlers.
• Add MX Vertical USB information.
• Udev rule adds seat permissions for all Logitech devices.
• Support USB-connected devices in GUI.
• Make probe and config work for USB-connected devices.
• Improve strings and display for settings.
• Correctly handle non-unifying connection notifications.
• Update GUI strings for several settings.
• Better support for EX100 and devices that connect to it.
• Partial support for feature GESTURE_2.
• Simplify interface for settings.
• Use DJ connection notifications to set device active status
• Udev rule sets seat write permissions for hidraw nodes for device as well as receivers.
• Handle USB devices that use HID++ protocol in CLI.
• Use device hidraw nodes where possible.
• Handle receivers with serial numbers that don't provide number of pairings.
• Ignore exceptions when setting locale.
• Correctly discover settings that share a name.
• Don't show pop-up notifications at startup.
• Keep battery voltage updated in GUI.
• Add Portugese translation.
• Update several translations.
• Add Lightspeed receivers c545 and c541.
• Reimplement REPROG_CONTROLS data structure.

release 1.0.3

• Clean up documentation files.
• Update documentation on installation.
• Update Swedish and French translations.
• Add Norwegtian Nynorsk and Danish translations.

release 1.0.3rc2

• Fix bug handling DJ pairing notifications.
• Add Norwegian Bokmål translation>

release 1.0.3rc1

• Remove deprecated solaar-cli application.
• Don't install udev or autostart files from python (or pip).
• Solaar needs Python 3.6+ and probably needs kernel 5.2+
• Handle exceptions on dynamic settings when device is not connected.
• Fix inifinite loop on some low-level write errors
• Add support for EX100 keyboard/mouse and receiver (046d:c517)
• Add two settings for THUMB_WHEEL feature - inversion and reporting via HID++
• Update German translation
• Use REPORT RATE feature when available to determine polling rate.
• Improve config command speed when not printing all settings
• Improve config command handling and checking of arguments
• Add setting for CHANGE_HOST feature
• Add argument to settings for values that are not to persist
• Add argument to settings to not wait for reply when writing a value to device
• Add argument to not wait for reply from request to device
• Add settings for MULTIPLATFORM and DUALPLATFORM features
• Remove Logitech documents from documentation directory
• Change config command to not read all settings when only printing or showing one
• Display hosts info in 'solaar show' if device supports it
• Remove non-working smooth-scrool from M510 v1
• Add yapf and flake8 code style checks
• Fix feature k375s Fn inversion
• Update controls (keys and buttons) and tasks (actions)
• Improved way to specify feature settings.
• Don't abort on device notifications with unexpected device numbers, just warn.
• Keep track of non-features so as not to ask device multiple times.
• Implement KEYBOARD DISABLE KEYS feature.
• Don't create notifications for DJ device activity reports.
• Update a few special keys and actions.
• Add keyed choice settings in configuration panel.
• Support remappable keys from reprogrammable keys v4 feature.
• Add setting class for keyed choice.
• Only check for features once per device.
• Use settings interface to show feature values in solaar show if no special code for feature.
• Remove maximum window size.
• Process battery voltage notifications.
• Display battery voltage information in main window if regular battery information not available.
• Show next battery level where available.
• Update list of implemented features and provide information on how to implement features.
• Add c53d as a Lightspeed receiver.

release 1.0.2

• Add usage document

release 1.0.2rc3

• Don't produce error dialog for inaccessible receivers with access control lists.
• Add option --battery-icons=symbolic to use symbolic icons if available.
• Update French translation
• Update installation documentation

release 1.0.2rc2

• Remove packaging directory tree as it is not maintained
• Pip installs udev rule and solaar autostart when not doing --user install
• Use Solaar icon instead of a missing battery icon
• Use only standard icons for battery levels. Symbolic icons do not change to white in dark themes because of problems external to Solaar.
• Better reporting of battery levels when charging for some devices.
• Add information on K600 TV, M350 WIPD 4080, and MX Keys
• Remove assertion requiring receivers to still be in window when they are updated.
• Augment long description of Solaar showing up in repositories.
• Update installation directions.
• Install udev rule as well as autostart file when doing system install.
• Add support for Ayatana AppIndicator.
• Use setuptools icon directory on system installs when not using pip.
• Add receiver C517 and several older devices.
• Improved translations for polish.
• Bypass bug in appindicator when solaar is file in current directory.
• Don't check that device kind matches feature kind.
• Better determination of icons for battery levels.
• Use Ayatana AppIndicator if available.
• Improve error reporting when required system packages are not install.
• Better tooltip description
• Add release script to help when creating releases

release 1.0.2-rc1

• Look up tray icon filenames to get around a bug in libappindicator.
• Make the default behavior be to show the main window at startup.
• Support c537 nano receiver
• Add logind signals for suspend/resume.
• Remove solaar-gnome3 package
• Ignore features for devices that don't follow feature specification
• Add probe command to command-line interface to dump receiver registers
• Don't terminate on malformed or unknown messages
• Create fewer internal notifications for messages from devices
• Add a button to the main window to terminate (quit) Solaar
• Set up nano receivers as receivers with no unpairing and with re-pairing
• Set up c534 as receiver with max 2 pairings, no unpairing, re-pairing
• Better support receivers that do not unpair or when pairing replace existing pairings
• Add information about receiver pairing to receiver data structure
• Better support devices that only allow a limited number of total re-pairings
• Add --window option to control main window visibility and tray usage
• Ignore receiver if USB id is not retrieved
• Fix bug with double deleting when devices are disconnected
• Determine some receiver information from data structure for USB ids
• Treat battery level of 0 as unknown
• Fix bug on devices with no serial number
• Drop support for python2, and use python3 throughout
• Fix bug in remembering features discovered from device reports
• Show icons in main window device list
• Count offline devices when determining whether pairing is possible
• Update French, Dutch, German, and Croation translations
• Better icons for battery levels
• Support DPI, Backlight 2, Battery Voltage features
• Support M585, M590, M330, MX Master 2s and 3, new M310, new K800, craft keyboard
• Documentation improvements
• Clean up directory structure and remove unused files

• Updated the repo url.
• Fixed typo which was crashing the application.
• Improved the HID write routine which was causing issues on some devices.
• Fix non-unifying receivers in Linux 5.2.
• Add new Lightspeed receiver (used in the G305)

After 6 years we have a new release! A long time as passed but development kept progressing, for this reason this release is bound to have bugs. We'll try to push a bugfix release as soon as people start reporting bugs.

Thank you to everyone that has contributed over the years to this project, I know you are all waiting for a release 😄.

Translation support, and more bugfixes:

• Added support for hand detection on the K800.
• Added support for V550 and V450 Nano.
• Fixed side-scrolling wit the M705 Marathon.
• Fixed identification of the T650 Touchpad.
• Added internationalization support and romanian translation.
• Polish translation courtesy of Adrian Piotrowicz.

No new features, mostly bug-fixes:

• When devices report a battery alert, only show the alert once.
• Make sure devices in the window tree are sorted by registration index.
• Added an autostart .desktop file.
• Replaced single-instance code with GtkApplication.
• Fixed indentification of the M505 mouse.
• Fixed an occasional windowing layout bug with the C52F Nano Receiver.

From the ChangeLog:

• New single-window UI.
• Performance MX leds show the current battery charge.
• Support the VX Nano mouse.
• Faster and more accurate detection of devices.
• If upower is accessible through DBus, handle suspend/resume.
• Replaced Solaar icons with SVGs.
• Running solaar-cli in parallel with solaar is now less likely to cause issues.
• Bugfixes to saving and applying device settings.
• Properly handle ^C when running in console.